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PeaceHealth Outreach Laboratory Sells to Quest Diagnostics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,471-word article in the February 21, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY…
PeaceHealth Labs Sold To Quest Diagnostics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Oregon, one of the nation’s more successful and long-established health system outreach laboratories will cease to exist following its sale to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. The seller explained that the Medicare Part B price cuts coming as a result of the PAMA market p…
CMS CLIA Sanction Letter Sent To Theranos Raises Questions
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 10 – July 25, 2016 Issue
CITING PRACTICES THAT JEOPARDIZE PATIENT SAFETY, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services decided earlier this month to revoke the CLIA certificate that it granted to Theranos Inc. to operate a clinical laboratory in Newark, Calif., and to ban the lab…
Quest to Manage Six Labs at HCA HealthONE Hospitals
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For decades, hospitals were reluctant to allow any outside lab company to run their inpatient lab operations because they preferred to maintain control over quality results and turnaround times. That attitude may be changing as health systems face increasing margin compressio…
June 13, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
Life insurers are adopting healthcare big data as part of their underwriting process and clinical laboratory test data has an important role. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated participates in this business line. Huffington Post recently published a story on this topic and ident…
Quest Makes Second Deal For Inpatient Lab Volume
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
NEWS OF A HOSPITAL INPATIENT LAB MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT between HealthONE of Denver and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated marks the second time in six months that the public lab company has earned an inpatient lab management pact with a multi-hospital health system. Ther…
May 23, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue
Patients of Health Diagnostic Laboratories who were tested between 2009 and 2014 are now being dunned by a collection agency! Creditors in the HDL bankruptcy case have engaged a Florida collection agency to go after 9,000 accounts. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, t…
Newsmaker Interview: Matthew Hawkins
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 2 – February 8, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By now, most pathologists and clinical laboratory administrators recognize that effective use of information technology will be a critical success factor as healthcare systems transform to do population health management and to use “big data” with value-based payment mode…
New Company Targets Lab Benefit Management
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Soon, the nation’s newest laboratory benefit management company will begin working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. Avalon Healthcare Solutions committed to BCBSSC that it can save money off what the health plan has been spending on clinical lab testing. It wil…
DAT: Should Patients Have Access to All Laboratory Tests?
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Arizona’s new direct access testing law allows consumers and patients to have access to all laboratory tests without a physicians’ order. But one lab company decided not to offer all lab tests to consumers. Instead, executives at Sonora Quest Laboratories recognize that, …
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